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MLB Team Washington Nationals Partners With Terra Blockchain Community, Ballpark Plans to Accept UST

On February 9, the American professional baseball team based in Washington, D.C., the Washington Nationals, announced the team has partnered with Terra, the open-source blockchain platform and decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). The Washington Nationals detail that the team is a “leading innovator” and is “consistently introducing new technologies to enhance the fan experience.” Washington Nationals Ink Long-Term Deal With Terra Major League Baseball (MLB) team the Washington Nationals has partnered with the blockchain platform and DAO Terra, according to an announcement published by the team on Wednesday. The deal with Terra follows a slew of sports-related deals with crypto firms, but the MLB team will be the first to partner with an open-source blockchain project. In addition to the partnership, the algorithmic stablecoin UST that’s issued on the Terra blockchain will be “accepted as a payment method at Nationals Park as early as next season.” “The Nationals continue t...
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Games Coins, Defi Tokens, Metaverse Assets Rise Above Market Downturn With Double-Digit Gains

Games Coins, Defi Tokens, Metaverse Assets Rise Above Market Downturn With Double-Digit Gains

While digital currencies like bitcoin and ethereum lost roughly 10% in value during the last seven days, the decentralized finance (defi) economy has weathered the storm better than the top two leading crypto assets. A slew of blockchain games coins, defi tokens, and metaverse assets like gala, crypto.com coin, wax, kadena, wonderland, and avalanche have seen double-digit gains during the last 24 hours.

TVL in Defi Weathers the Crypto Economy Storm

While bitcoin (BTC) has hovered just above the $60K zone in consolidation, the defi economy and a number of other crypto assets have seen decent gains. Statistics from defillama.com show that on November 9, the total value locked (TVL) in defi protocols tapped $275 billion and today it’s only 6.54% lower at $257 billion. The defi protocol Curve commands 8% dominance amid the $257 billion with $20.63 billion TVL.

Curve’s TVL is followed by Makerdao ($18.16B), Aave ($15.59B), Convex Finance ($15.34B), and WBTC ($14.66B), respectively. The top three chains today in terms of TVL in defi include Ethereum (ETH), Binance Smart Chain (BSC), and Solana (SOL). ETH captures $172.22 billion or 66.93% of the aggregate TVL in defi on Wednesday. BSC has $19.56 billion or 7.60% and SOL has $13.32 billion or 5.17%.

7 Tokens See Double-Digit 24 Hour Gains, Cross-Chain Bridge TVL Dips 6.3% in 30 Days, Uniswap Commands Today’s Top Dex Volume

The top gainer during the last 24 hours is the blockchain game coin gala (GALA), up 110.4% today. Crypto.com coin (CRO) has increased 28.5%, wax (WAXP) jumped 16.7%, kadena (KDA) spiked 16.0%, wonderland (TIME) lifted 14.8%, avalanche (AVAX) rose 14.3%, and curve dao token (CRV) increased by 10%. The aforementioned seven tokens are the only coins on Wednesday that saw double-digit gains among the 10,000+ crypto assets.

Other notable gainers include theta fuel (TFUEL) up 8.3%, kucoin token (KCS) jumped 5.2%, nem (XEM) rose 5.2%, polygon (MATIC) increased by 4.8%, and iota (MIOTA) spiked 4.3% during the last 24 hours. Defi cross-chain bridge action is around $23.98 billion total value locked with Ronin Bridge commanding $7.5 billion, according to Dune Analytics metrics. 30-day changes in cross-chain bridge TVL show bridge TVL is down 6.3%.

The top five decentralized exchange (dex) platforms today include Uniswap (Ethereum), Trader Joe (Avalanche), Quickswap (Polygon), Alcor.exchange (WAX), and Sunswap (Tron). During the last 24 hours, the Avalanche-based Trader Joe saw $150.89 million in dex swaps, while today’s leader Uniswap processed $901 million, according to dappradar.com’s records on November 17.

What do you think about the blockchain games coins, defi tokens, and metaverse assets rising above the crypto market downturn? Let us know what you think about this subject in the comments section below.

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